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Omar Khaled Elsayed Mohamed Eldardeer

Post Doc
Post Doc
COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies
Omar Khaled Elsayed Mohamed Eldardeer
Address
Via Enrico Melen 83, Building B 16152 Genova, Italy
Research center
CHT@Erzelli
Interests
Cognitive Architectures
Robot Perception
Robot Audition
Biografia

Omar Eldardeer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology in COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies (CONTACT) unit. His research focuses on building cognitive architectures for perception, learning, and interaction for robots with the human in the loop. Typically in interaction or collaboration scenarios.

He earned his B.Eng. in Electrical Energy Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt. Followed by an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics from the University of Essex, UK with a thesis about multi-modal spatial awareness for robots at home. He then obtained his Ph.D. in Bioengineering and Robotics from the University of Genoa and the Italian Institute of Technology in the Robotics, Brain, and Cognitive Sciences (RBCS) unit, where he explored audio-visual cognitive architectures for human-robot shared perception.

During his Ph.D. and postdoctoral research, Omar Eldardeer contributed to VOJEXT and APRIL EU projects and was a visiting researcher at the University of Essex, the University of Lethbridge, and the University of Bremen at different periods.

Omar Eldardeer is now leading a work package about "Achievement of Scientific Excellence Leader" within the EU-Funded twinning project TERAIS.

Education

Title: Ph.D. Bioengineering and Robotics
Institute: Università di genova
Location: Genova
Country: Italy
From: 2019 To: 2023

Title: MSc Intelligent Systems and Robotics
Institute: University of Essex
Location: Colchester
Country: UK
From: 2018 To: 2019

Title: BEng. Electrical Energy Engineering
Institute: Cairo University
Location: Cairo
Country: Egypt
From: 2012 To: 2017

Experience External

Title: Visiting Researcher
Institute: University of Bremen
Location: Bremen
Country: Germany
From: 2024 To: 2024

Title: Visiting Researcher
Institute: University of Lethbridge
Location: Lethbridge
Country: Canada
From: 2022 To: 2022

Title: Visiting Researcher
Institute: University of Essex
Location: Colchester
Country: UK
From: 2022 To: 2022

All Publications
2025
Beckova I., Pocos S., Belgiovine G., Matarese M., Eldardeer O., Sciutti A., Mazzola C.
A multi-modal explainability approach for human-aware robots in multi-party conversation
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 253
DOI 10.1016/j.cviu.2025.104304
Article Journal
2024
Eldardeer O., Rea F., Sandini G., Mohan V.
Autonomous Navigation with Cumulatively Growing Cognitive Maps
40th Anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation
Abstract Report Conference
2024
Cocchella F., Eldardeer O., Manca M., Matarese M., Rezzani A., Zedda E.
Robots for Humans (RfH 2024)-Embracing Human-Centred Robot Design
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
DOI 10.1145/3656650.3660535
Conference Paper Conference
2024
Eldardeer O., Grasse L., Rea F., Tata M.
Virtual Datasets for Spatial Hearing in Robotics
Workshop on Embodied Voices at Robotics Science and Systems Conference (RSS)
Conference Paper Conference
2023
Jirak D., Belgiovine G., Eldardeer O., Rea F.
A Novel Experiment Design for Vision-Based Fatigue Detection
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 14020 LNCS, pp. 390-398
DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-35681-0_25
Conference Paper Book Series
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Scientific Talks
2025
Eldardeer O.
Cognitive Architectures For Robot Perception
Blended Intensive Programme: Advancements and applications of wearable technology
School (Summer school, ...)
2025
Eldardeer O.
Towards Human-Robot Shared Perception
Comenius University Bratislava
Institute
2024
Eldardeer O.
iCub to Understand Multimodal Cognitive Perception
Workshop on Intelligent, Interactive, Embodied Agents
Workshop/Symposium
2024
Eldardeer O.
Introducing ​ ICub for Interaction
Institute for Artificial Intelligence - University of Bremen
Institute
2024
Eldardeer O.
Value Of Joint EXperimentation in digital Technologies for manufacturing and construction (VOJEXT).
Robots for Humans (RfH)
Workshop/Symposium
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Oral presentations
2024
Eldardeer O., Grasse L., Rea F., Tata M.
Virtual Datasets for Spatial Hearing in Robotics
Workshop on Embodied Voices at Robotics Science and Systems Conference (RSS)
Conference
2023
Eldardeer O., Mazzola C., Rea F., Sandini G., Sciutti A.
How to Enable Human-Robot Shared Perception
the Fourth Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots at CHItaly 2023
Conference
2023
Eldardeer O., Bar-Magen J., Rea F.
Software Architecture for Safety, Ergonomics, and Interaction for Industrial Mobile Robotic Platforms
25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION, pp. 509-517
Conference
2021
Eldardeer O., Sciutt A., Tata M., Rea F.
Auditory perception for interactive robots: a cognitiveframework to include motor commands and working memory inthe process of auditory sound localization
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) {Sound in HRI workshop}
Conference
2020
Eldardeer O., Sandini G., Rea F.
A Biological Inspired Cognitive Model of Multi-sensory Joint Attention in Human Robot Collaborative Tasks
IEEE RO-MAN 2020: 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication
Conference
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Awards and Achievements
2025
Pasquali D., Garello L., Belgiovine G., Eldardeer O., Lastrico L., Rea F., Mastrogiovanni F., Sandini G., Sciutti A.
Best Paper Award Finalist with paper "No Robot is an Island: An Always-On Cognitive Architecture for Social Context Awareness in Dynamic Environments"
2020
Eldardeer O., Sandini G., Rea F.
Best Paper Award in the AVHRC2020 workshop in ROMAN2020 Conference "A Biological Inspired Cognitive Model of Multi-sensory Joint Attention in Human Robot Collaborative Tasks"
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Organized Events
2025
Kümpel M., Beetz M., Eldardeer O., Sciutti A., Scheibl M., Wrede B.
1st Workshop on Interactive Task Learning in Human-Robot co-construction (ITL4HRI) at RO-MAN 2025
2025
Zedda E., Bossema M., Belkaid M., Matarese M., Manca M., Marchesi S., Becker J., Wang P., Eldardeer O., Cocchella F., Rezzani A., Nault E., Saunders R., Ben Allouch S.
RfH 2nd Edition: empowerment Through Co-Creative and Social Robots (RO-MAN 2025)
2025
Matarese M., Eldardeer O., Farkas I., Sciutti A.
Special session in Explanations in Social HRI - International Conference on Social Robotics + AI (ICSR+AI 2025)
2025
Malinovská K., Kerzel M., Wermter S., Farkas I., Lucny A., Cibula M., Ali H., Habekost J., Eldardeer O.
Special Session on Neurorobotics - 34th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks ICANN25
2024
Belgiovine G., Garello L., Eldardeer O., Pasquali D.
A Curious Head: child-inspired cognitive architecture for robot’s autonomous learning.
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Colleagues of COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies
Francesca Cocchella Francesca Cocchella PhD Student Fellow COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies
Cristina Gena Cristina Gena Affiliated Researcher COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies
Sara Guastavino Sara Guastavino Administrative Assistant Materials Characterization Electronic Design Laboratory Electron Microscopy COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies
Vittorio Guerrieri Vittorio Guerrieri PhD Student Fellow COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies
Jasmin Rabe Jasmin Rabe Post Doc Unit for Visually Impaired People COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies
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